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Incitation vs Incitement - What's the difference?

incitation | incitement |

As nouns the difference between incitation and incitement

is that incitation is the act of inciting or moving to action while incitement is a call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.

incitation

English

(wikipedia incitation)

Noun

(-)
  • The act of inciting or moving to action.
  • (obsolete) Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive.
  • *, II.29:
  • *:A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation .

    • incitement

    English

    Alternative forms

    * encitement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.